FF:NZ Latest Finds (part 5) :o)

Yea Chans I got a Strider/Aragorn from JP for X-Mas - so ask him where he got it.

 

I broke mine heaps of times. if you go somewhere like Mitre 10, you should be able to get a replacement pretty cheap.

another example of how expensive GW miniatures are. $32 for a 2 inch cave troll!
(says the guy who paid $50 for 9 even smaller figures)

I'd much rather have a big a$$ one with club swinging action and authentic movie sounds. it even has a rubber face...

 

ok then:

JP, where did you get the Strider figure?
I saw some at the warehouse, but by the time I got the money to get one, they were all gone

havent seen one since. maybe they will get more in. hopefully.

 

I'd much rather have a big a$$ one with club swinging action and authentic movie sounds. it even has a rubber face...

HERE HERE!

is your trolls mouth ripped slightly?

and the strider's arm that holds the flaming torchs is limp (hangs) as the legs and arm are connected somehow.

Squeeze legs - arm lifts.

Getting back to the Troll.

LOUD SOUNDS AND TWO ARMS THAT MOVE VIA LEVERS - WHATS BETTER?



(Chans - get on ICQ)

 

Yes Sir!

 

I can paint coustomize and use him in part of my evil forces army

 

Just to let people in the Auckland area know, Gotham comics in Onehunga has a large selection of POTJ collection 1 figures in stock and some old POTF figures as well

 

Are those the old figures we've already seen in Warehouse/K-Mart branches??

 

Chansplace, I got Strider through our Mum who makes wall displays/castles/promotional "themes" etc for the warehouse.

She emailed the entire country's Warehouse branches to track it down, I'm not sure where it was sent from, to be honest...

 

Yes Buzz same as Kmart/warehouse stuff,

Also had some of those 3 pack micro vehicles also

 

Mum read LotR like 40years ago.

D'OH! Sorry SFL, that was me being ignorant. Still, If *my* mom was a SW fan, that would be so cool.

 

huh?

 

darn it. your mum might have got the one I was eying up here in chch!

anyway, I heard they are popping up in australian stores, so they may yet turn up here, and in greater numbers.

 

Just got back from K-mart, Hunters Plaza, and they've got 15% off everything, if anyone is still after any POTJs.
They had a couple out which I haven't seen in a while -
Leia Organa - General (in her ROTJ endor outfit)
Sandtrooper - Tatooine patol
The Scouttrooper
and those other ones which seem to be everywhere - Han, bespin, Anakin, mechanic, old Obi-Wan etc

 

I went in to K-Mart Henderson (Auckland) this morning and picked up a "Dirty" Scout Trooper and a Leia (General). It was the last Leia, but there was another two Scout Troopers still there though. I don't think I got 15% off though - it must have finished yesterday.

I also picked up a paperback copy of Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter from a Whitcoulls branch. It's a bit thicker and a bit more expensive ($22) than the "average" Star Wars book.

While I was in Whitcoulls I glimpsed some rolls of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings wrapping paper - I didn't see a price though.


Last night I was given a marketing brochure for the two new Episode II books from Dorling Kindersley. It doesn't show/say much though - just the publicity images we've already seen and small pictures of the book covers. It does say that the books will be released on 25 April (in England).

 

Hey Kitt did they have many Leia Generals?

I wonder if any are still left, any idea what time they close tonight?

 

I've just found out why the Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter book is a bit thicker - it also contains the 54page Darth Maul: Saboteur story that was released "only" as an e-book a while back.

 

BONUS

 

They had three Leia Generals on Monday. They should have at least one left. I think they close between 8-9 on weeknights, Thursday is late night.

 

Just got my bro to pick me up 1 today
yeah!!!
Thanks Kitt

 

New figures available for pre-order - these are the 25th Anniversary figures.

Visit the Star Wars NZ website for more details.

Yippee!

 

latest find/score:

LOTR MOBIL promo stand.

oooh, aaah.

My first: walk in and ask for a promo stand thingy from a store/shop.

Operation LOTR stand = success.

Mum got a phone call and picked it up while i was away. I went to 3 different MOBI's and the first one is where i got it from (thought id go to 3 incase )

DAMN MUM, JP AND CHANS - I tihnk I'm going to have to be a LOTR collector now!

 

Dosentr bet my chewbacca cut out i won from woolworths in 1997 with a box of pepsi cans a poster and 3 movie pasees saw the whole se for free

 

Here's a great find, New Zealand PC World's February 2002 issue comes with a CD, containing the Forbidden love trailer (in the smallest size, unfortunately.) and the demo for galactic battlegrounds.

There's also a special inside on the best Star Wars websites.

It's easy to spot on the shelf, because there's a big white stormtrooper on the front holding a camera. Cool pic.

It seems like a nice magazine too - I'd never read it before, and it seems good.

 

Was in Gotham Comics yesterday found some original 3 3/4" figures for sale

R2-D2 x a couple
R4-D5
Death Star Commander
i think some others 2 not many thou

Have heaps of the collection 1 POTJ and some POTF stuff 2

I got Death star Droid, tusken raider, obi wan